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Behav Processes
; 73(1): 114-6, 2006 Jul.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16524672
RESUMO
Java sparrows (Padda oryzivora) were trained to discriminate English from Chinese spoken by a bilingual speaker. They could learn discrimination and showed generalization to new sentences spoken by the same speaker and those spoken by a new speaker. Thus, the birds distinguished between English and Chinese. Although auditory cues for the discrimination were not specified, this is the first evidence that non-mammalian species can discriminate human languages.